return2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoGoogle Maps changes Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ for U.S. userswww.ctvnews.caexternal-linkmessage-square118fedilinkarrow-up1566arrow-down113
arrow-up1553arrow-down1external-linkGoogle Maps changes Lake Ontario to ‘Lake America’ for U.S. userswww.ctvnews.careturn2ozma@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square118fedilink
minus-squareMereo@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up52·edit-22 months agoI’m Canadian and I switched to maps.here.com, a European service as it provides good transit info. We need to move away from American hegemony.
minus-squareJohn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·2 months agoHERE Maps will include the change, I 100% guarantee it. They have Gulf of America pushed to prod servers. (switch to US vpn location and you will see it) source: I may or may not work for them 🫠
minus-squareskankhunt42@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·2 months agoAs long as they only change it in the US, that’s fine with me. I’d still rather support the EU.
minus-squareKkk2237pl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoI thought they relied on open street map
minus-squareJohn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoHERE Maps? Absolutely not. OSM is a competitor to HERE.
minus-squareKkk2237pl@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoHow they get information about places like restaurants, shops etc?
minus-squareJohn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoexternal sources like Yelp, Trip Advisor, Localeze, FB
minus-squarekuiskaaja@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agowebsite doesn’t even open for me xD i just use osmand on my phone for general navigation and my city’s public transportation app for navigating the bus system
I’m Canadian and I switched to maps.here.com, a European service as it provides good transit info. We need to move away from American hegemony.
HERE Maps will include the change, I 100% guarantee it. They have Gulf of America pushed to prod servers. (switch to US vpn location and you will see it)
source: I may or may not work for them 🫠
As long as they only change it in the US, that’s fine with me. I’d still rather support the EU.
I thought they relied on open street map
HERE Maps? Absolutely not. OSM is a competitor to HERE.
How they get information about places like restaurants, shops etc?
external sources like Yelp, Trip Advisor, Localeze, FB
website doesn’t even open for me xD
i just use osmand on my phone for general navigation and my city’s public transportation app for navigating the bus system